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Resumption of Clitoris Removal: Latest Horror from Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (“Barbarians R Us”)

COMMENT: As men­tioned so often here, the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood-pri­ma­ry ben­e­fi­cia­ry of the so-called Arab Spring covert operation–is an Islam­ic fas­cist group with alliances stretch­ing back to the Axis pow­ers of World War II and off­shoots includ­ing al-Qae­da, Hamas and Pales­tin­ian Islam­ic Jihad.

The term “fas­cist” often fails to accu­rate­ly con­vey the true hor­ror of that to which the orga­ni­za­tion and relat­ed ele­ments are ded­i­cat­ed. 

Although female gen­i­tal muti­la­tion (sur­gi­cal removal of wom­en’s cli­toris­es to pre­vent “impure thoughts”) was banned by Egypt­ian law under Mubarak, the Broth­er­hood has been orga­niz­ing med­ical con­voys admin­is­ter­ing the banned prac­tice.

After win­ning sig­nif­i­cant par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Egypt­ian par­lia­ment in the ear­ly part of the last decade, the Broth­er­hood lob­bied hard to pass a law that would have banned san­i­tary nap­kin dis­pensers from wom­en’s bath­rooms in pub­lic high school. This would have forced female stu­dents to remain at home when men­stru­at­ing. Islam tra­di­tion­al­ly views women as unclean when men­stru­at­ing and for­bids men from hav­ing con­tact with them at that time.

Will the Broth­er­hood start to work on that one next?

Nev­er lose sight of the accla­ma­tion of the Broth­er­hood as enlight­ened by many ele­ments in the West, rang­ing from the World Bank to the main­stream U.S. media to Cindy “Look Ma, No Brains” Shee­han to the pun­dits of Paci­fi­ca Radio.

Guess we don’t quite under­stand the term “enlight­ened.”

CORRECTION: The legal­ized necrophil­ia law, accord­ing to the Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor, was a hoax plant­ed in the media by for­mer Mubarak polit­i­cal asso­ciates. Read the linked arti­cle for more detail.

“Human Rights Groups Con­demn Med­ical Con­voys over Female Cir­cum­ci­sion”; The Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Dai­ly Report; 5/14/2012.

EXCERPT: Egypt­ian media is report­ing on com­plaints con­cern­ing med­ical con­voys orga­nized by the Egypt­ian Mus­lim Brotherhood’s polit­i­cal par­ty which are alleged to be involved with female cir­cum­ci­sion. Accord­ing to a Bikya Masr report:

A num­ber of Egypt­ian human rights groups have sub­mit­ted a com­mu­ni­ca­tion to the Attor­ney Gen­er­al Abdel Meguid Mah­moud against the Mus­lim Brotherhood‘s polit­i­cal arm, the Free­dom and Jus­tice Par­ty (FJP) to inves­ti­gate the com­plaints of peo­ple in the vil­lage of Abu Aziz in the Minya gov­er­norate, south of Cairo, over the exis­tence of a large med­ical con­voy orga­nized by the par­ty that wan­ders streets and does med­ical exam­i­na­tion on peo­ple, includ­ing female cir­cum­ci­sion, or female gen­i­tal muti­la­tion, in vio­la­tion of Egypt­ian law, con­ven­tions and treaties signed by Egypt. In Egypt’s legal code, Female Gen­i­tal Muti­la­tion is crim­i­nal­ized, as well as the incit­ing by doc­tors to con­vince fam­i­lies of the young girls of the need to agree to cir­cum­cise their daugh­ters, ‘as a mat­ter of pre­serv­ing chasti­ty.’ . . .

Discussion

4 comments for “Resumption of Clitoris Removal: Latest Horror from Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (“Barbarians R Us”)”

  1. The term ‘female cir­cum­ci­sion’ is a mild, decep­tive descrip­tor which, in the West­ern male men­tal uni­verse, min­i­mizes the crime. The act is more akin to cas­tra­tion and that fact should give men seri­ous pause, that is, if they con­sid­er women to be human.
    The bar­barous hier­ar­chies that define fas­cism dove­tail nice­ly with the fun­da­men­tal­ist sects of all the major reli­gions.
    The bad news is that half of the pop­u­la­tion of any ran­dom Mus­lim coun­try has an easy way to feel supe­ri­or to some­one and, giv­en no oth­er influ­ence, they nat­u­ral­ly grav­i­tate to fas­cism. The good news is that the oth­er half have an inborn rea­son to be anti-fas­cist.
    I knew I could come up with at least one hope­ful sen­tence if I tried hard.

    Posted by Dwight | May 19, 2012, 9:50 am
  2. Right on Dwight!

    The term ‘female gen­i­tal muti­la­tion’ is much more descrip­tive.

    Posted by Vanfield | May 19, 2012, 9:02 pm
  3. @Dwight: Can’t help but agree with your view on the term, ‘female circumcision’.....it tru­ly is just a fan­cy, and not harsh enough, I might add, word to describe a bar­barous act.

    I do believe there are a grow­ing num­ber of anti-fas­cists of all stripes in the Mid­dle East, though.....unfortunately, it is def­i­nite­ly an uphill fight, main­ly thanks to the fact that the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and oth­er arms of the world crime net­work, pos­si­bly includ­ing folks tied to the Bush milieu, have infil­trat­ed the rebel move­ments and are try­ing to destroy them from within(so maybe in a few decades, if the MB takeovers are suc­cess­ful in the long term, the Estab­lish­ment can just point to all this and claim, ‘Hey, Gaddafi, Mubarak, and Al-Assad weren’t so bad after all!’....when they were nev­er tru­ly ene­mies to begin with.).

    @Vanfield: So true!

    Posted by Steve L. | May 20, 2012, 1:26 am
  4. Broth­er­hood aids Syr­i­an “rebels” in con­cert with US impe­r­i­al aims, from Wash­ing­ton Post:

    (Mus­lim Broth­er­hood has) “its own sup­ply chan­nel to the rebels, using resources from wealthy pri­vate indi­vid­u­als and mon­ey from Gulf states, includ­ing Sau­di Ara­bia and Qatar, said Mul­ham al-Dro­bi, a mem­ber of the Brotherhood’s exec­u­tive com­mit­tee.”

    The Post con­clud­ed by not­ing, “The Pen­ta­gon has pre­pared options for Syr­ia extend­ing all the way to air assaults to destroy the nation’s air defens­es.”

    Posted by ironcloudz | May 25, 2012, 10:17 am

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